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Montcalm and Wolfe

The French and Indian War

By Francis Parkman

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| Paperback | 9780306810770

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"He who opens these pages for the first time faces a rich experience."-C. Vann Woodward.. Montcalme and Wolfe frames the war years through the lives of its two brilliant opposing generals. Weaving together the campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic Continue

"He who opens these pages for the first time faces a rich experience."-C. Vann Woodward.. Montcalme and Wolfe frames the war years through the lives of its two brilliant opposing generals. Weaving together the campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic. Parkman travels from opulent royal courts to muddy colonial fields, from Fort Necessity to the Plains of Abraham. He couples impeccable history with rich insightful narration, revealing the war as a deeply personal conflict between Louis de Montcalm and James Wolfe, the two ambitious leaders who ultimately died heroes deaths on the frontlines. Accompanied by over forty detailed maps and illustrationssome selected specially for this editionParkmans timeless work shows how the enormous transfer of land from France to England at the wars end sowed the first seeds of colonialismseeds that, in the due course, led America to its revolution, and eventually, its independence.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 658 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0306810778
  • ISBN-13: 9780306810770
  • Publisher: The Perseus Books Group
  • Publish date: 2001-10-09
  • Dimensions: 204 mm x 127 mm x 38 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others , eBook
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